Re: New Machine, QSECOFR not authorized

At all places I have ever worked, I have been in the habit of a selection of 
suitable tasks loaded up on JOBQ when I go home & some of them even scheduled 
to start running at like 3 am.  One Sunday the CEO stopped at the office over 
the weekend & he noticed the computer running & he knew nothing about 
electrical safety or electrical bills or how long it takes to re-IPL or what 
happens to the hard disk drives when there is a loss of power, but his 
reaction was that it was not prudent to have electrical appliances running 
unattended, & he knew nothing about the control panels so he pulled the plug.

I show up Monday & am in a panic.  Not only has the system gone down & not 
gone back up automatically, but everything is dead.  I call IBM service.  IBM 
CE in the computer room when the CEO walks in & tells us about the wall plug. 

Sir, I tell the CEO, I think you are risking thousands of dollars to save a 
few dimes.  My boss or perhaps IBM support could tell you what the cost is to 
the hard drives compared to what you saving in electricity, but if you really 
want the computer sitting idle when it could be working, perhaps I should be 
authorized to cut the power to the whole building when I leave at nite, from 
the main power panels, and we should invest in a larger computer that does 
not need unattended operations, or a 2nd shift operator.

My boss backed me up on this, thankfully.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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